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Awen Films’ and Centro Primo Levi’s new film “Iom Romì (A Day in Rome)“, Awen Films’ latest short documentary focusing on the Jewish community of Rome, will be featured at the New York Jewish Film Festival this January. Following its successful debut at Pitigliani Kolno’a Festival…

The trailer for our latest film is online! Produced in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi, “Iom Romì” is a short documentary chronicling a day in the life of the contemporary Jewish community of Rome. News regarding the film’s first screening will be released soon. For more…

If you are in Italy, tune into RAI STORIA this Saturday for the Italian TV premiere of Awen Films’ award-winning documentary “If Only I Were That Warrior,” directed by Valerio Ciriaci. A special 55-minute broadcast version of the film, translated for the occasion as “Se…

The award-winning documentary If Only I Were That Warrior is now available for purchase on DVD and streaming. Following its 2015 premiere at Festival dei Popoli in Florence, “If Only I Were That Warrior” has screened at leading film festivals and academic institutions worldwide. In June 2016…

The award-winning documentary If Only I Were That Warrior (Se quel guerrier io fossi) is scheduled to air on Swiss Public TV on November 14, as part of the LA2DOC series. If you are in Switzerland, tune into RSI LA2 at 22:15 for the documentary’s broadcast…

If Only I Were That Warrior has won the Italian Golden Globe for best documentary: “For the courage, balance and technical mastery Valerio Ciriaci employed in his first first feature film to shed light on the dark pages of Italy’s colonial past and expose the amnesia…

Last week our latest feature doc, “If Only I Were That Warrior,” was awarded the Imperdibili (unmissable) prize for best Italian documentary feature at the 56th Festival dei Popoli in Florence. This award will give us the opportunity to distribute the film in up to 41…

We are honored to announce that our feature doc If Only I Were That Warrior has been selected to compete for Best Italian Documentary in the Panorama section of the 2015 Festival dei Popoli in Florence, Italy. The screening will take place on November 28 and will be…

We started strong in 2015 and got a lot of work done in the editing room. As you know, we are now in the process of fine-tuning the first full-length cut of If Only I Were That Warrior with the objective of delivering a finished copy to…

Summertime, and summer screenings for Awen Films. We are in Rome this week for the Italian premieres of Into Noise and Treasure — The Story of Marcus Hook. The two short docs are part of the official selection for the first edition of InTe Film Festival,…